I used dvorak for about a year and a half. I had a lot of fun, but my old left hand pain (qwerty) became right hand pain, and the right hand pain was worse. I g

I used dvorak for about a year and a half. I had a lot of fun, but my old left hand pain (qwerty) became right hand pain, and the right hand pain was worse. I got a split keyboard, and that alone didn't seem to help. Now I'm a couple months into using workman, which notably has a very balanced hand usage. About 50/50, unlike qwerty which is mostly left, or dvorak which is mostly right. IIRC colemak and qgmlwb are similarly unbalanced, as it's not a goal of theirs to fix that. My best speed in qwerty was about 160, I got to the 140s in dvorak, and I'm 100-110 in workman at the moment. I'm not sure if I'll switch again. The balanced hand usage is a rare trait. If not for that issue, I was thinking of trying the halmak layout. I'm a little sad that workman is qwerty-like since I'd already bothered to unlearn that with dvorak, and so I had no qualms about most keys being different. I actually get some weird typos now, like typing "sad" instead of "saw" because of similar placement to qwerty on the left. I also change the layout on my phone with anysoftkeyboard. I've had at least 3 people tell me it's pointless on a touchscreen, but I like the consistency, and the layouts were already made and easy to switch to. If you use colemak, I hear the mod-dh variant is better, but workman solves the same problem, so I'd recommend just using it if you aren't already years into colemak.